Mediterranean Diet Reduces Stroke Risk: Study

February 14, 2015 4:29 PM

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A new study has demonstrated that loyalty to the Mediterranean diet could reduce the risk of stroke. In the United States, health experts consider stroke as a serious health risk, leading to death or debilitating condition.

Ayesha Sherzai, MD, stroke neurologist at Columbia University Medical Center, NYC, explained, “With stroke being one of the biggest disease burdens in the U.S. and throughout the world, and treatments not being as extensive as we would like them to be, diet is a risk factor that people can control”.